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Seattle Design Festival 2022

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Seattle Design Festival 2022

8.20-26

12:00AM-11:59PM

The 2022 Seattle Design Festival will be all about CONNECTION. When thinking about design, there is something very tangible and physical in how things ‘connect’ – but there...

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Seattle Design Festival 2022

Aug 20-26

The 2022 Seattle Design Festival will be all about CONNECTION. When thinking about design, there is something very tangible and ph...

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SDF Block Party

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SDF Block Party

8.20-21

10:00AM-7:00PM

The Seattle Design Festival kicks off with a Block Party at Lake Union Park! The Seattle Design Festival Block Party is a two-day street fair celebrating the powerful ways design...

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SDF Block Party

Aug 20-21, 10:00AM-7:00PM

The Seattle Design Festival kicks off with a Block Party at Lake Union Park! The Seattle Design Festival Block Party is a two-day ...

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860 Terry Ave N,
Seattle WA 98109

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SDF Virtual Mainstage

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SDF Virtual Mainstage

8.22-24

12:00AM-11:59PM

Spend your lunch (virtually) with SDF August 22-24! Log on from your desk as we stream design sessions, films, and live discussions about CONNECTION with special guests. The...

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SDF Virtual Mainstage

Aug 22-24, 12:00AM-11:59PM

Spend your lunch (virtually) with SDF August 22-24! Log on from your desk as we stream design sessions, films, and live discussion...

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Seattle,
WA

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SDF Community Spotlights

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SDF Community Spotlights

8.22-25

12:00AM-11:59PM

A series of programs from our Festival partners in Fremont August 22, Columbia City August 24, and Downtown August 25. Focused celebrations of Seattle neighborhoods and a chance...

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SDF Community Spotlights

Aug 22-25

A series of programs from our Festival partners in Fremont August 22, Columbia City August 24, and Downtown August 25. Focused cel...

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Columbia City,
Seattle 98118

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SDF Closing Party

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SDF Closing Party

8.26

7:00PM-10:00PM

Join us for a celebration of our festival partners, volunteers, and supporters! Join us for an evening of CONNECTION and celebrating the festival partners, volunteers, and...

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SDF Closing Party

Aug 26, 7:00PM-10:00PM

Join us for a celebration of our festival partners, volunteers, and supporters! Join us for an evening of CONNECTION and celebrati...

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400 Dexter Avenue North,
Seattle WA 98109

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Seattle Design Festival 2022

8.20-26

The 2022 Seattle Design Festival will be all about CONNECTION. When thinking about design, there is something very tangible and physical in how things ‘connect’ – but there...

Landscape Architecture

Bridge the Gap

8.20-21

10:00AM-7:00PM

Admire, pose with, read stories, even add your ideas, stories, or responses to this sculpture which will bridge people from all over the city! The members of Coyote's Youth...

Multidisciplinary

Whirly Pong

8.20-21

10:00AM-7:00PM

Join us for a chaotic game of ping pong in the round. Grab a paddle and a friend or seven! Connect directly with other festival-goers by playing this group game. This round...

Visual / Art

Ripple Effect

8.20-21

10:00AM-7:00PM

Track, chart and project your personal connection from where you are to where you'll go to. This abstract framework, inspired by South Pacific Stick Charts, tells the story of...

Architecture

Re-think

8.20-21

10:00AM-7:00PM

Re-think waste streams as you are confronted by your own trash! We build with what we have. In an effort to reduce waste, we propose an installation from found materials....

Multidisciplinary

SDF Block Party

8.20-21

10:00AM-7:00PM

The Seattle Design Festival kicks off with a Block Party at Lake Union Park! The Seattle Design Festival Block Party is a two-day street fair celebrating the powerful ways design...

Exhibit/Installation

Cultural Kaleidoscope

8.20-21

10:00AM-7:00PM

Visitors will see large painted textiles that are based on many indigenous cultures around the world. They are touchable, with rich mixed media inclusions. The artist will also...

Architecture

Arcade

8.20-21

10:00AM-7:00PM

Come play a game with Environmental Works! Push and Pull pegs to prepare a pathway – then score by aiming your ball for the buckets below! Environmental Works invites people...

Architecture

City Canvas Vol 1. Happy Accidents

8.20-21

10:00AM-7:00PM

Leave your mark on our interactive art exhibit! For this first installation of City Canvas, we are exploring ‘Happy Accidents.’ We believe that connection sparks when two...

Architecture

Beat Roulette

8.20-21

10:00AM-7:00PM

In the Beat Roulette arena, your body movements double as instruments! Dance, have fun, and interact with others in the space to create new sounds and music! Beat Roulette...

Community Design

Building a Resilient Village: A Collaborative Design Swarm

8.20-21

10:00AM-7:00PM

Let's imagine ecoTHRIVE Housing’s first resilient village together! Join us in visualizing a beautiful community-centered village that is affordable for today, for generations...

Architecture

Common Threads

8.20-21

10:00AM-7:00PM

Pick a thread of your choice! A connection is made once you weave yours onto a peg interwoven with other people's threads, creating a beautifully woven design. This abstract...

Architecture

Glimpse

8.20-21

10:00AM-7:00PM

Push and pull different mechanisms along the wall to create a structure where openings and connections appear and dissolve through the interactions! Throughout history,...

Architecture

Equipoise

8.20-21

10:00AM-7:00PM

Visit ‘Equipoise’ to connect and socialize! While you're here, create artistic flags that will be attached to the installation for display throughout the festival! Rooted...

Landscape Architecture

Future. Food. Forest. Radical Landscapes for Uncertain Times

8.20-21

10:00AM-7:00PM

Explore how landscape architects use plants to design green, healthy, and inclusive future cities! Imagine what it would be like to be a plant yourself! And create your own...

Architecture

Forest Net(work)

8.20-21

10:00AM-7:00PM

Come make a personal connection to the thing that sustains us all: our planet! Forest Net(work) is a pavilion helping us to create a more sustainable world through...

Architecture

Tie-In

8.20-21

10:00AM-7:00PM

Create a banner that captures elements your own intersectional identity to help build a collective tapestry of hidden connections with other festival-goers. Like the...

Architecture

Unveiled

8.20-21

10:00AM-7:00PM

Share your favorite places, activities, and memories in and around Seattle through ribbons! Come learn and trade experiences with your neighbors. Discover new adventures in...

Architecture

What a re-LEAF!

8.20-21

10:00AM-7:00PM

Fling the foliage! Lob some leaves! Cast a canopy! Help re-leaf our tree. Loop strands over branches to collectively compose a canopy. Together, our combined contributions will...

Multidisciplinary

Webbing Urban Connections

8.20

10:00AM-3:00PM

Foster community connections and collaborate with your neighbors through a shared map of your favorite Seattle experiences. What does post-pandemic look like? One thing that...

Multidisciplinary

Seattle Fireboat Duwamish – Through the Eyes of the Past

8.20-21

10:00AM-7:00PM

View a diorama of the 1909 Seattle Fireboat Duwamish, then proceed across the park to see the real Seattle Fireboat Duwamish at the Historic Ships Wharf! Visitors will...

Architecture

Pulse

8.20-21

10:00AM-7:00PM

Pulse is a kinetic display that offers a unique sensory experience inspired by the site at Lake Union Park and by each other. Visitors will enter and exit a tunnel-like...

Multidisciplinary

One Seattle: Re-establishing Housing Diversity in Seattle’s Neighborhoods

8.20-21

10:00AM-7:00PM

What'll Seattle's residential neighborhoods look like in thirty years? Explore visions for new & reimagined housing types proposed by UW students. Explore student work,...

Graphic Design

Sign of the Times

8.20-21

10:00AM-7:00PM

Follow the Burma Shave inspired road signs around the park until you reach the final destination: the Seattle Fireboat Duwamish, where you can take a free tour of the...

Architecture

Soundscape

8.20-21

10:00AM-7:00PM

Soundscape is inspired by the simple kid's toy string can telephone, composed of two cans and a taut string. Playing with that concept, this pavilion features hundreds of tin can...

Visual / Art

The Building Blocks of Community

8.20-21

10:00AM-7:00PM

Come create a piece of art with us! Explore how we are connected to place, community, art, and self by composing a selection of cube faces, comprising a holistic image. The...

Community Design

Sink or Sail: Toy Boat Challenge

8.20

10:00AM-2:00PM

Up for the Sink or Sail challenge? Design a toy boat, plan for the supplies you'll need, construct your design and then see if it floats! Compete against other groups, or build...

Architecture

Social Tides

8.20-21

10:00AM-7:00PM

Discover new ways to interact and build resilient, transcendent connections! When our world of constant motion was brought to a jarring halt by the pandemic, social interaction...

Exhibit/Installation

HOTHOUSE

8.20-21

10:00AM-7:00PM

Our HOTHOUSE debuts neon glass as you've never seen it before! Come check out our freestanding sculpture featuring house and plant motifs! HOTHOUSE is a 6ft tall by 5ft wide by...

Multidisciplinary

let’s play

8.20-21

10:00AM-7:00PM

'let's play' encourages people to interact with and examine the environment within which connections are built upon and reinforced. Through an array of apertures the...

Multidisciplinary

Labyrinth

8.20-21

10:00AM-7:00PM

Work together to solve this collaborative maze game installation! Labyrinth encourages an environment of cooperation and problem-solving. Participants stand on either side of...

Architecture

Memory Strings

8.20-21

10:00AM-7:00PM

Tie threads throughout the installation to connect yourself with the community and others around you by creating a network of memories! Enjoy the sounds of these connections as...

Community Design

Nested

8.20-21

10:00AM-7:00PM

What happens when people come together and use deliberate relationship building and community engagement as a pathway to ending homelessness? Help build a BLOCK Home with The...

Multidisciplinary

Ned the elephant

8.20-21

10:00AM-7:00PM

Scale the elephant in the room, and learn about the community of survivors looking to re-enter the workforce. The hard work of defeating cancer is often seen as an unfavorable...

SDF Pavilion Designed by Johnston Architects

8.20-21

10:00AM-7:00PM

Stop by the new SDF Pavilion to learn more about this year's Festival. Pick up your schedule-at-a-glance, meet Festival volunteers, engage with our SDF Partners! Earlier the year...

Architecture

SWITCHBOARD

8.20-21

10:00AM-7:00PM

This installation is designed to invite visitors to engage with the spaces created by the participants as they relate to aspects of togetherness that have been on hold, lost or...

Multidisciplinary

The New Consumers: Exploring Connection Through Mycelium and Music

8.20-21

10:00AM-7:00PM

This installation will explore how mycelium can be used as a building material in impermanent and fugitive architectures. Whiteness expresses itself spatially as monumental,...

Community Design

Degrees of Separation // Chains of Connection

8.20

11:00AM-6:00PM

Create chains of connection between meaningful places. Write on paper links about why a place is meaningful to you and add it to the map! Using large printed maps of the...

Multidisciplinary

Exceptions

8.20

1:00PM-5:00PM

How can the edge conditions we value redefine Seattle for its post-pandemic era? This pop-up space will act as a conduit for bringing readers both new and existing to ARCADE’s...

Performance / Experiential

Color Me Connected

8.20

4:00PM-6:00PM

Creativity fosters connection. Tap into your inner artist and help create a collective masterpiece! You are invited to contribute your own one-of-a-kind painted piece to help...

Performance / Experiential

Exploring the Body of Connection

8.21

10:00AM-2:00PM

Examine how you engage with public space and come away with techniques that increase ease and fulfillment as well as greater relationships to the spaces we inhabit in daily...

CreativeMornings Seattle + SDF

8.21

10:00AM-12:00PM

Stop by the Creative Mornings' booth at the SDF Block Party to learn more about their free monthly breakfast lecture series where they offer free coffee, breakfast, and an...

Activity

Seattle Design Festival Screen Printing

8.21

12:00PM-4:00PM

Stop by between noon and 4:30p on the final day of the SDF Block Party to screen print your very own SDF merch! Pick up a free tote bag to carry your Festival schedule at a...

Visual / Art

13 Rabbit Rock, Soul, Blues

8.21

4:00PM-5:00PM

13 Rabbit is a band made up of veteran musicians, who also happen to be architects, designers, and contractors. Jam out to their mix of rock, soul, and blues! Great summer...

Multidisciplinary

SDF Virtual Mainstage

8.22-24

12:00AM-11:59PM

Spend your lunch (virtually) with SDF August 22-24! Log on from your desk as we stream design sessions, films, and live discussions about CONNECTION with special guests. The...

Multidisciplinary

SDF Community Spotlights

8.22-25

A series of programs from our Festival partners in Fremont August 22, Columbia City August 24, and Downtown August 25. Focused celebrations of Seattle neighborhoods and a chance...

Multidisciplinary

‘Inclusive Perspectives’ Walking & Rolling Neighborhood Tour Fremont Community Spotlight

8.22

5:00PM-8:00PM

Tour will tentatively depart from outside of Fremont Brewing at 1050 N 34th Street at 5 pm. How can we come together as a community to ensure people of all abilities are able to...

Architecture

Columbia City Connections

8.24

4:00PM-8:00PM

Columbia City Connections will feature several interactive tables of different scales highlighting design from small arts and graphic design projects up to site scale through to...

Community Design

ESV: 1000 Steps to Imagine a Puzzle, a Problem, and a Place

8.24

5:00PM-8:00PM

KAVE USA "Drink & Walk Your Coffee" invites you to come and experience the sleuth in you! Over a designated path, in this urban setting participants will explore the...

Multidisciplinary

‘Inclusive Perspectives’ Walking & Rolling Neighborhood Tour Columbia City Community Spotlight

8.24

5:00PM-8:00PM

Tour will depart from the south side of S Edmunds Street and 36th Ave S at 5 pm. How can we come together as a community to ensure people of all abilities are able to connect...

Performance / Experiential

Exploring the Body of Connection Columbia City Community Spotlight

8.24

5:00PM-8:00PM

This workshop will offer tools and strategies for increasing awareness of our experience – and our ability to make choices - in designed spaces. Stop by the SDF Booth at...

Community Design

Wake up to Low-Waste

8.25

11:00AM-1:00PM

We’re hosting a coffee-fueled networking event and conversation on low-waste journeys – from small wins to sticky hurdles – with a Seattle furniture manufacturer, zero...

Architecture

SAF Family Workshop | JUNCTION

8.25

11:00AM-1:00PM

Children of all ages and their chaperones are invited to a drop-in modeling workshop with the Seattle Architecture Foundation! Seattle Architecture Foundation invites youth...

Architecture

Seattle Architecture Foundation 25th Annual Architectural Model Exhibit | JUNCTION

8.25

11:00AM-1:00PM

Visit the Seattle Architecture Foundation's 25th Annual Architectural Model Exhibit, "JUNCTION," at the Center for Architecture and Design. On display now! JUNCTION is an...

Multidisciplinary

‘Inclusive Perspectives’ Walking & Rolling Neighborhood Tours Downtown Community Spotlight

8.25

11:00AM-1:00PM

Tour will depart from the Center for Architecture and Design at 11 am. How can we come together as a community to ensure people of all abilities are able to connect and enjoy our...

Music + Art with Downtown Seattle Association

8.25

12:00PM-2:00PM

Catch a concert in Occidental Square! Lady A is known as “The Hardest Workin’ Woman in Blues, Soul Funk & Gospel.” She always strives to meet the needs of her audience...

What You Have Become: Public Art, Archaeology & Urban Design

8.25

4:00PM-5:00PM

What are the points of connection between a mammoth tooth, a peach pit someone spit out in the 1890s, and tiles glazed with glacial clay? Join an all ages artist talk that...

Multidisciplinary

Firm Crawl

8.25

4:30PM-8:30PM

Join IIDA NPC Seattle City Center in a downtown Architecture & Interior Design Firm Crawl! Through this group tour, we will visit three architectural firms and one furniture...

Technology

Evolution of Instinct – Our Modern Wilderness FUTURE ARTS PRESENTS: AUGMENT Seattle 2022

8.25

5:00PM-8:00PM

"Evolution of Instinct - Our Modern Wilderness" is a vibrant vinyl-powered augmented reality mural on 3rd Avenue supported by revival efforts of Downtown Seattle...

Multidisciplinary

One Seattle: Re-establishing Housing Diversity in Seattle’s Neighborhoods Community Spotlight

8.25

6:00PM-7:30PM

What'll Seattle's residential neighborhoods look like in thirty years? Explore visions for new & reimagined housing types proposed by UW students. Join the UW Department of...

Party

SDF Closing Party

8.26

7:00PM-10:00PM

Join us for a celebration of our festival partners, volunteers, and supporters! Join us for an evening of CONNECTION and celebrating the festival partners, volunteers, and...

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